Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kitchen counter at 36 Irving St. is an Etch-a-Sketch. On the grey face above the two knobs are not the usual convoluted stick men, shaky square house, or the even more usual quasigeometrical mess of random shapes and wiggles. Glaring from the screen is a squat, intricate medieval demon named Baphomet, who has a cross in his crotch, a flaming eye in his right hand and a nasty leer on his toothy face. Baphomet used to be regarded as the guardian of the gates of hell, and here, on the kitchen counter, in the squiggly confines...
Mark has an amazing talent with the Etch-a-Sketch. For a while, he did a different one every day. Hamlet holding Yorick's skull. More demons, some of them on motorcycles. Scenes from the Arabian Nights. When he went back to Cairo to visit his fiancee, after finishing his thesis, Mark said goodbye to the house with a pyramid landscape, replete with all three pyramids, a blazing sunset, a camel and himself waving goodbye in the distance. The round knobs just don't look capable...
...lobby of the NBC studios. Clay, after fending off some hecklers during his opening monologue, promised to mind his mouth: "What do I need -- more p.r.? I couldn't get more p.r. if I took out my penis and wrapped it around a microphone stand." However, during one sketch in which he played a father counseling his son about sex, several words were bleeped out (the usually live show was broadcast with a five-second delay...
...aggressiveness of a Sumo wrestler is further underlined by the artist's blocky style. But the painting technique leaves a lot to be desired, with one thin washy layer and no variation in strokes or thickness. Because of an unsophisticated use of oil, the painting appears to be a sketch for a future, developed rendition...
...description on the Harvard police sketch describes the man slightly differently. In that description, the suspect is listed as over six feet tall, in his late 20s or early 30s with a slender build. The sketch shows a man with a mustache but no beard...